Purpose: The explanatory study aimed to understand the global perspective of quality education and describe transformative strategies that empower teacher educators and equip the education system and future teachers to act as change agents by fostering learning processes that support students towards a sustainable future.…

This study provides preliminary evidence from an Italian in-service training program addressed to lower secondary school teachers which supports school improvement plans (SIPs). It aims at exploring the association between characteristics/contents of SIPs and student improvement in math achievement. Pre-post standardized tests and text analysis of…

Volume I discusses the background, findings and analysis, and conclusions and recommendations of a two-volume study aimed at developing a cross-national model to enable the United States and five European democracies, England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and West Germany, to make more adequate estimates of the effectiveness of their primary…